Thermal agent disaster and fire disaster: definition, damage, assessment and relief operations

Masellis, Michele

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Thermal agent disaster and fire disaster: definition, damage, assessment and relief operations

Michele Masellis⁴

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The attention of experts today is more directed at analysis of disaster management than at disaster prevention. It is in fact widely believed that the results of studies of disasters, although they have helped to reduce their number, will not be able to eliminate the percentage risk of their occurrence, in view of the imponderability of human and technical errors.

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Divisione di Chirurgia Plastica e Terapia delle Ustioni, Ospedale Civico, Palermo, Italy
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Division of Plastic Surgery and Burn Centre Palermo, Italy
M. Masellis M D (Professor and Head, Secretary-General) (Professor and Head, Secretary-General)
Mediterranean Burns Club, Italy
M. Masellis M D (Professor and Head, Secretary-General) & S.W.A. Gunn M D (President, Formerly Head) (Professor and Head, Secretary-General) & (President, Formerly Head)
Emergency Relief Operations, World Health Organization, Switzerland
S.W.A. Gunn M D (President, Formerly Head) (President, Formerly Head)

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Masellis, M. (1992). Thermal agent disaster and fire disaster: definition, damage, assessment and relief operations. In: Masellis, M., Gunn, S. (eds) The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-33973-3_2

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